It’s a beast. It’s a bully. And its time is up, forest experts and community members say. The ornamental chokecherry tree, invasive in Alaska, has gotten so bad in some areas that the state used grant ...

Tricia Howe, a volunteer working at the Aug. 19, 2023,"weed smackdown" at Anchorage's Tikishla Park, pulls another felled European bird cherry tree to put on a pile near the park's softball field.

Q: We have had our chokecherry tree for three years. It has been growing and doing great. This year, the branches are bare for the most part. However, new leaves are starting to appear from the trunk.

Home on the Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grange Hall in North Pole. The topic this week is “Invasive Species,” particularly the popular ornamental chokecherry tree. Both Prunus padus, ...

Q: We have an Amur chokecherry tree in our backyard, and this year much of the tree has fewer leaves than normal. I noticed one of the main trunks has small oval holes in the bark. Do you know what is ...

Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana, is a small shrub or tree found near Montana's rivers and streams. It is one of our most important edible native plants. The scientific name for the genus, Prunus, ...

Late last winter the usual cow moose with two calves showed up in our yard. They ate every part of a flowering crab apple tree they could reach ... except for the south side. At the time, I just ...

The tree in front of my house is changing its leaves from green to a rich, red-brown. It is a chokecherry—at least I think it is. It doesn't fruit. I don't know if that's because it's a variety bred ...

Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana, is a small shrub or tree found near Montana’s rivers and streams. It is one of our most important edible native plants.